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Vagabond
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Vagabond
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| Posted: 16-Sep-2017 16:55 Post subject: The Race - Registration |
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I ran a modified version of this on a friend MekWars server and had a Spider pilot who had no arms and missing leg win by pogo sticking to the finish, were he promptly fell over and lost the other leg.
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chihawk
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| Posted: 16-Sep-2017 17:01 Post subject: Re: The Race - Registration |
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| Mordel wrote: | | chihawk wrote: | | Which leads to an interesting rules question...it's not actually the first to cross the finish line who wins, but who crosses the farthest after the turn is over and survives the turn, right? |
Whoever crosses it first is the winner. Movement is simultaneous, but there is a move order. So if two are close to the end, init matters. Crossing it but not winning because there was a fire phase you dies in AFTER crossing it, well, that would be silly. |
Except that's how we do it at the convention...
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| Posted: 16-Sep-2017 20:07 Post subject: Re: The Race - Registration |
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| Vagabond wrote: | | I ran a modified version of this on a friend MekWars server and had a Spider pilot who had no arms and missing leg win by pogo sticking to the finish, were he promptly fell over and lost the other leg. |
No legs and a missing arm, at least to me, means you wouldn't win. You have to cross the line and be still be "alive" at the end of movement. In that scenario, for my games, you're eliminated.
| chihawk wrote: | | Except that's how we do it at the convention... | Well, that's stupid then. 
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chihawk
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| Posted: 16-Sep-2017 20:11 Post subject: Re: The Race - Registration |
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Plus you're not allowed to stand with no arms and only one leg anymore...
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| Posted: 16-Sep-2017 21:59 Post subject: Re: The Race - Registration |
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| chihawk wrote: | | Plus you're not allowed to stand with no arms and only one leg anymore... |
He had the arms when he stood.
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| Posted: 17-Sep-2017 17:01 Post subject: Re: The Race - Registration |
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| Mordel wrote: | | chihawk wrote: | | Which leads to an interesting rules question...it's not actually the first to cross the finish line who wins, but who crosses the farthest after the turn is over and survives the turn, right? |
Whoever crosses it first is the winner. Movement is simultaneous, but there is a move order. So if two are close to the end, init matters. Crossing it but not winning because there was a fire phase you dies in AFTER crossing it, well, that would be silly. |
Heh, you had to survive to win all the games we set up at Totalcon. I remember winning Darryl's king of the ring one year after stepping on Lynn's pilot after killing her mech to keep her from running off the map. I forget why I did it, but I think we were tied, and my mech had no armor or internals left... I don't think it ended up mattering, as the next guy trying to kill me was stupid and died on the way in.
In the race, I didn't want initiative to determine the winner, so I added the idea that not only did you have to cross the line, but you had to survive the round. The Race was patterned after Circus Maximus and I'm pretty sure you have to survive to win that race also...
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Sir Henry
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| Posted: 19-Sep-2017 17:53 Post subject: Re: The Race - Registration |
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Stepping on a pilot doesn't teach them anything...
| Pinhead wrote: | | Mordel wrote: | | chihawk wrote: | | Which leads to an interesting rules question...it's not actually the first to cross the finish line who wins, but who crosses the farthest after the turn is over and survives the turn, right? |
Whoever crosses it first is the winner. Movement is simultaneous, but there is a move order. So if two are close to the end, init matters. Crossing it but not winning because there was a fire phase you dies in AFTER crossing it, well, that would be silly. |
Heh, you had to survive to win all the games we set up at Totalcon. I remember winning Darryl's king of the ring one year after stepping on Lynn's pilot after killing her mech to keep her from running off the map. I forget why I did it, but I think we were tied, and my mech had no armor or internals left... I don't think it ended up mattering, as the next guy trying to kill me was stupid and died on the way in.
In the race, I didn't want initiative to determine the winner, so I added the idea that not only did you have to cross the line, but you had to survive the round. The Race was patterned after Circus Maximus and I'm pretty sure you have to survive to win that race also... |
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| Posted: 19-Sep-2017 17:58 Post subject: Re: The Race - Registration |
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Still need ten players. Tell your friends!! Am giving this a week before I make Facebook posts.
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| Posted: 19-Sep-2017 20:50 Post subject: The Race - Registration |
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Count me in.
Too bad assaults are excluded... I was thinking it was time to try the Great Turtle again. Slow and steady and all that...
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| Posted: 20-Sep-2017 09:16 Post subject: Re: The Race - Registration |
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| Ronin wrote: | Count me in.
Too bad assaults are excluded... I was thinking it was time to try the Great Turtle again. Slow and steady and all that... |
Hahaha... at that point it becomes a slug fest. Even with heavies you'll get some whose goal is to destroy and be the last alive. Which is actually fine. There tends to be a good mix of tactics between those who try to complete three laps, and those who try to be the last alive. It typically is pretty fun! We'll see how it all plays out in this format.
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| Posted: 20-Sep-2017 10:36 Post subject: Re: The Race - Registration |
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When do you need our rides. And how do we stat out pilots. This is my first time.
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| Posted: 20-Sep-2017 11:20 Post subject: Re: The Race - Registration |
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| Xeroth wrote: | | When do you need our rides. And how do we stat out pilots. This is my first time. |
The rules can be found here:
www.mordel.net/barandgrill.php?redirect=viewtopic&t=11322
The exceptions to those rules are in the first post of this thread.
Just send Mordel a site message with your mech whenever you have it picked He'll announce an actual deadline as soon as the max players are reached (or he gets tired of waiting).
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| Posted: 21-Sep-2017 06:21 Post subject: The Race - Registration |
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| I'm up for a stroll around the park.
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| Posted: 21-Sep-2017 08:58 Post subject: Re: The Race - Registration |
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| PaWeasley wrote: | | I'm up for a stroll around the park. |
Not many trees in this park!
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